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The Daily Poll: Twitter's "Scheduled Maintenance"

If you use Twitter, you’ve probably become pretty familiar with the above picture and message the company uses when undergoing maintenance. After changing their “scheduled maintenance window” several times over the weekend, the sun has risen today with continued intermittent outages on the site. The company explains in a blog entry published this morning:

“The switch in question caps traffic an unacceptable level. In order to correct this, we'll need to get some hardware installed. Unfortunately, that means we're not done with our datacenter move just yet. This type of work can be frustrating but it's all towards Twitter's highest goal: reliability.”

It seems no matter how unreliable or frustrating Twitter can be with its downtime, users flock back to the site. In fact, for the brief moments I was able to access it this morning, the main topic of conversation was jubilation over the return of Twitter from its maintenance.

As someone that is relatively new to the service, but finds myself refreshing to see if it’s back online every 10 minutes or so, I was curious:

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